{"id":7158,"date":"2018-09-23T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7158"},"modified":"2018-09-23T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:58:50","slug":"september-23-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=7158","title":{"rendered":"September 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2018 September 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes:&nbsp; Today, a <strong>Cabbage White<\/strong> came up straight from the road 20m below.&nbsp; She went straight to my garden where new kale plants are sprouting, and she immediately started laying eggs.&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She remained at it for quite a few minutes, allowing me to get back inside, unpack the camera from the travel luggage and go back and capture her as well as one of the eggs she laid. &nbsp;The first butterfly egg of this autumn?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: Almost certainly.&nbsp; It may also have been the first adult butterfly of the season.&nbsp; I saw two  <strong>Cabbage Whites <\/strong>today in the Martindale Valley.&nbsp; The first was at 2:05 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen was all packed and just about to go on holiday to Germany.&nbsp; Libby Avis writes:&nbsp; Unpacking your travel luggage to get it is real dedication!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes, indeed it is!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 507px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1110770.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"1199\" setheight=\"459\" setwidth=\"459\" hasheight=\"false\" style=\"width: 459px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/P1110770.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 516px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"P1110770-crop.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1200\" originalheight=\"1105\" setheight=\"457\" setwidth=\"496\" hasheight=\"false\" style=\"width: 496px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/P1110770-crop.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ovum (egg) of Cabbage White <em>Pieris rapae <\/em>  (Lep.: Pieridae)&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; Here is a third instar caterpillar of a  <strong>Large Yellow Underwing, <\/strong>reared from one of the 1450 ova shown on September 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 625px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image006.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"IMG_3004.JPG\" originalwidth=\"1192\" originalheight=\"686\" width=\"542.4\" height=\"312.1530201342282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_3004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Large Yellow Underwing <em>Noctua pronuba <\/em>(Lep.: Noctuidae)&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 September 23 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Jochen M\u00f6hr writes:&nbsp; Today, a Cabbage White came up straight from the road 20m below.&nbsp; She went straight to my garden where new kale plants are sprouting, and she immediately started laying eggs.&nbsp;&nbsp; She remained at it for quite a few minutes, allowing me to get back inside, unpack the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}